The blood-dimmed tide

The blood-dimmed tide

Henry Cowell: The Tides of Manaunaun (1917)
Steffen Schleiermacher, piano

Sergei Prokofiev: Seven, they are seven, Op 30 (1917)
Moscow Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra / Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Gian Francesco Malipiero: Pause del Silenzio (1917)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma / Francesco La Vecchia

Heitor Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No 4 (1917)
Cuarteto Latinoamericano

Egon Wellesz: Idyllen, Op 21 (1917)
Margarete Babinsky, piano

Rued Langgaard: Music of the Spheres (1918)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir / Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Marcelle de Manziarly: Violin Sonata (1918)
Cecilia Zilliacus, violin; Bengt Forsberg, piano

The music at the very start and the very end of this programme has been created specially for the Resounding Echoes series by Swiss composer Daniel Schorno.

There's further information about Robert's Resounding Echoes series here.

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